Politico December 10, 2018
2018 has been a breakout year for health innovation.
Major tech companies plunged fully into the health care arena, hiring teams of health care experts and launching major initiatives. Google conducted landmark artificial intelligence studies; Apple signed up 500 health systems to provided patient data to its digital health records platform; and Amazon announced a health care venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan led by writer and surgeon Atul Gawande. Investments by health IT startups topped $6.8 billion by the end of September, well over the previous year’s total.
At the same time, health care systems intensified low-tech, hands-on efforts to improve care and lower costs, adding navigators, coaches and community health workers. Issues such as food security, housing and...
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